Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1887-10-14
THE MOTIVES OF MEN
who Calamity Offer Seats to Pretty
Women in the Cars.

Women In the Cars.
It was on the elevated. A young angel
with a new spring suit and an independent
set of the shoulders had no idea that her voice
could be heard above the rattle of the cars as
she talked to a second young angel in pink
and green bonnet and an Easter smile. They
embarked at Twenty-third street. AS several
hundred other persons were in the cars, there
was about as much room left for them as
there would be for pair of humming birds
in a box of sardines. Three gallants saw that
they were pretty, and sprang up to give them
seats The one with the Easter smile was
just about to perform the simultaneous sit
down and 'thank you" act, when the one
with the independent shoulders held her con-
panion up with one hand grabbed a strap
with the other and said: "No, thanks; we
can stand.n
"Don't you take it, Lille" she whispered.
"They're only offering it to you because
you're good looking and then they'll stand
and grin at you all the way up. Ii they
won't give up the seats because it's lady,
whether she is pretty or not, then let them
keep them, say. used to think men were
awfully kind and courteous to the ladies' Iii
New York cars, but I've found out better"
"Why, Mollie, what makes you talk so'
FIN sure l never have to stand"
"Of course you don't You're pretty.
Neither 60 l, except when particularly need
to sit down, and then might stand all day,
for all the gentlemen in the New York cars
care. If Pm just starting down town. and
feeling bright and lively, and don't care
whether | have seat or not, as soon as get
into car half dozen young jackanapes are
up on their feet, bowling and asking if l won't
take this seat or that seat. But just let me
be tired to death and stupid feeling and look
ing, with the color out of my face, no DIM
pies in my cheeks, and bundles in my arms!
Not one of them moves They just look
up at me, say to themselves, Huh,
not much to look at, and then they
are too busy reading their papers to see ME if
I dropped. You know Jack and his wife
how pretty she isl Well. she's been SICK.
and she looks dreadful. The other day Jack
and brought her in from the country and
we had to take the elevated up home. She
could never have stood the long ride in the
carriage Before we got in she said: Oh, It's
all right If the cars are crowded. l always
get seat Well, the cars were not very
crowded, but all the seats were full, and did
she get one of them2 She did after awhile,
but it was another lady who gave 1t to her.
She Just chung to Jack and cried against his
coat sleeve, she was paining SO, and the men
looked at her as though she might be show,
but she was too sick and tired to be pretty,
and not one of them offered her seat. The
same thing. happened yesterday. She and
Jack were down town and she got all tired
out; but she had to stand almost all the way
home, until some lady saw how she was snffer-
ing and gave her seat. Wait till she's well
and pretty again and they'll all be jumping
up to let her sit down. But it won't be from
politeness. 1t will be because they like to
put good looking woman under obligations
to them"
"Well, never thought of it before; but it's
so, know. They won't get me under any
obligations to them after this until am not
able to stand," declared she of the Easter
smile.
"And when you get that way none of them
will offer you seat" retorted the independent
shoulders, as both girls left the car at the sta
tion-New York Sun.